湖南城市洪涝易损性诊断与评估

首先从孕育洪涝灾害的环境变异性、社会经济灾敏性、城市土地利用对洪涝的放大作用，防洪标准和人为设障等方面对湖南城市洪涝的易损性进行了总体诊断。然后，选取人口密度、工业产值密度、道路网密度、排水管道密度、建成区绿地率等指标，运用模糊综合评判对之进行了定量评估。将全省城市洪涝的易损性程度划分为5个等级；高度易损性，较高度易损性、中度易损性、较低度易损性、低度易损性。研究结果表明：湖南城市洪涝易损性程度总体水平高，因此，湖南洪涝防治要从以农村为重点转向以城市为重点，加大城市洪涝治理力度；湖南城市洪涝易损性程度等级与城市规模之间没有对应关系，因此，湖南城市洪涝防治应因地制宜。     

江苏湖泊富营养化特征、成因及解决途径

应用湖泊营养类型评价标准对江苏省主要湖泊富营养化进行了评价,以区域环境特征对苏南和苏北湖群及城郊湖泊富营养化现状、发生原因及对策进行了探讨,分析表明：城郊湖泊全部为富营养和重富营养水平,苏北湖群营养程度已接近苏南湖群,呈中富营养中期,太湖东部营养程度较之太湖西部高出一个营养级别以上。苏北湖群多为过水性湖泊,易受高浓度工农业污水脉冲式入湖影响;苏南湖群污染成因则相对较复杂,主要受城镇生活和工农业生产高污染负荷的氮磷排放影响。严格控制流域内各类污染源的源头污染物排放量、充分利用河网湿地净化功能、适度进行湖内污染底泥疏浚和生态重建工程,对控制江苏湖泊富营养化将是较有效的途径。     

2015年冬季苏州城市热岛特征研究

基于Landsat土地利用类型分类资料、夜间灯光影像资料、自动气象站资料以及大气边界层探测资料，划分出城市、郊区以及湖区代表站，分析了苏州2015年1月城市热岛日变化、昼夜差异特征以及城、湖温度差日变化特征，并对苏州城市热岛分布特征以及城、湖大气边界层结构差异进行分析。结果显示：(1)白天热岛强度小，09~17时热岛强度均小于1℃，最小值仅为02℃；夜间热岛强度大，19~05时热岛强度维持在12℃以上，最大值为17℃。(2)城、湖温差白天为正，夜间为负，市区变温速率比湖区快约02℃/h。(3) 苏州白天热中心形状不规则，范围大，城郊温差小，夜间形成单一封闭稳定热中心，热中心形状与市区有较好对应，城、郊温差维持在15℃左右。冬季地面盛行西北风，太湖湖陆风现象显著，湖陆风和盛行风向共同影响城市热羽向西南方向发展。（4）城、湖虚位温廓线在白天差异小，均有不稳定边界层形成，夜间市区仍维持不稳定边界层，而湖区有稳定边界层发展，近地层内干岛效应显著。(5)城市热岛影响范围有明显日变化特征，白天城市热岛影响范围小于40 m，夜间大于200 m。     

生态工程在湖垸湿地农业持续发展中的应用

湖垸是平原湖区农业生产的基本湿地单元。本文通过对江汉平原四湖地区的一个典型湖垸──新兴垸湿地农业开发的调查与分析，指出必须在湖垸微地貌基础上建设拦蓄和疏导并举的农田水利工程设施，因地制宜布局农业生产模式，发展沼气促进湖垸湿地生态系统物质能量的多级循环利用，保护与合理利用湿地资源，同时肯定并强调生态工程的应用是湖垸湿地农业持续发展的必由之路     

南四湖入湖重点污染河流筛选与水环境问题分析

根据南四湖主要河流入湖口水质空间分布监测数据，按平均综合污染指数〖WTBX〗Pj〖WTBZ〗＞2的标准共筛选出洸府河和薛城小沙河等17条重污染河流，这些河流CODcr、TP、TN的单项污染贡献率平均值依次为455%、763%、86.4%，说明南四湖TN和TP主要来自于重污染河流， CODcr、TP、TN的单项污染分担率平均值依次为22.7%、15.4%、61.9%，说明南四湖的首要入湖污染物是TN，其次是CODcr和TP。给出了南四湖湖东区入湖河口NH3 N与TN的线性回归方程，受湖西与湖东地形地势、河流形态、水力停留时间以及水体中pH、SS、叶绿素a等多种因素的影响，湖西比湖东河流的硝化过程较完全，湖西区和湖东区入湖河口氨氮与总氮的平均比值分别为025和065。分析表明，重污染河流的汇水区域一般都在主要城镇和工矿区分布，CODcr和氮污染物主要来自于工业和城市生活等点污染源，磷污染物主要来自于部分工业行业。因此，加强南四湖流域的工业结构调整、重点企业截污和城市污水处理厂脱氮除磷等点源控制措施仍是重中之重。     

湖北省主要大中型水库富营养状况及特征分析

水库在城市供水、工业用水、水产养殖、农业灌溉、水利防汛以及景观旅游等方面发挥着重要的作用，但随着社会经济的发展，部分水库的富营养化状况日益严重，成为影响社会经济发展的重大环境问题。通过在2010年的3、6、7、10月对湖北省30座主要大中型水库进行布点采样，对水体的水质状况分别进行了调查、监测，采用《地表水环境质量标准》湖库标准进行水质类别分析，采用湖库营养状态指数法对湖泊富营养化评价, 并运用因子聚类分析方法对这些水库进行了类型划分。结果表明：30座大、中型水库有14座水库水质类别为Ⅱ类~Ⅲ类, 占467%; 有8座水库水质类别为IV类，占267%；有8座水库水质类别为Ⅴ类或劣Ⅴ类，占267%；除白云湖水库为轻富营养化外，其余29座水库均属中营养状态；氨氮、磷作为营养物质是这些水库富营养化的主要影响因素，溶解氧对水体富营养化有重要影响，总氮、水温和有机物污染对水体富营养化产生较大影响；30座水库聚类分为城市工业废水污染源型、生活污水污染源型、农业非点源污染源型和养殖轻污染型4种水库类型。针对水库的污染类型，分别提出了减缓防治措施     

洞庭湖演变对农业生态环境垢影响

从洞庭湖演变历史的回顾入手，讨论了洞庭湖演变对湖区农业生态环境的影响，认为湖体演变带来了诸如湖泊温暖效应降低、洪涝灾害频繁、土壤潜有化严重、血吸虫病流行以及水产资源破坏等一系列生态环境问题，并提出了保护和改善湖区农业生态环境的对策与措施。     

洞庭湖演变对农业生态环境的影响

从洞庭湖演变历史的回顾入手，讨论了洞庭湖演变对湖区农业生态环境的影响，认为湖体演变带来了诸如湖泊温暖效应降低、洪涝灾害频繁、土壤潜育化严重、血吸虫病流行以及水产资源破坏等一系列生态环境问题，并提出了保护和改善湖区农业生态环境的对策与措施。     

我国东部轻度富营养化湖泊（元荡湖）介形类组成及其生态意义

元荡湖是我国东部平原的一个浅水湖泊，原系淀山湖的一个湖湾，后因芦滩封淤而成，其形成历史短，是探讨动物类群组成与湖泊生态系统演化间关系的理想场所。近年由于人类活动频繁，该湖已处于轻度富营养化状态。研究首次对该湖泊中的介形类进行了研究，共发现9种，它们分别是Cypretta turgida、Cypria kraepelini、Cypridopsis vidua、Cypris subglobosa、Dolerocypria taalensis、Fabaeformiscandona myllaina、F. subacuta、Fabaeformiscandona sp.和Ilyocypris salebrosa。这些介形类均非地方性物种，且都对生态环境有较强的耐受性。结合元荡湖母体湖泊-淀山湖水动力大、无介形类生存的实际情况，研究认为元荡湖中的介形类应由周边迁移而来，且其组成已受到人类活动的干扰。优势度（Y）分析结果也显示，C. kraepelini、F. myllaina、F. subacuta和Fabaeformiscandona sp.共4种出现频率相对较高的介形类中，以富营养化指示物种C. kraepelini的优势度最高。而典型对应分析结果（Canonical correspondence analyses，CCA）发现，自然环境因素水深仍是影响介形类分布的主要环境因子，其次是总氮、叶绿素a、水体透明度和溶解氧。通过分析介形类动物的生活习性和摄食方式发现，元荡湖的介形类分属于底栖动物栖息类型中的游泳型（如C. kraepelini和C. vidua）、攀爬型（如C. subglobosa和C. turgida）和蔓生型(其他5种)，其中蔓生型介形类占比最高，达56%，这也解释了为什么在元荡湖这样一个浅水湖泊中水深却成为影响介形类分布的主要环境因素。总结发现，元荡湖中的介形类组成和丰度分布受到湖泊形成时间的长短、自然环境因素和人类干扰等方面的共同影响，这为今后深入开展介形类组成与湖泊演化间的关系提供了理论证据。此外，研究首次报导了F. myllaina在中国的分布。 关键词： 元荡湖；介形类；水深；人为干扰；优势度Y；栖息类型     

城市化趋向与我国城市可持续发展的现实选择

城市化是人类生产和生活方式由乡村型向城市型转化的历史进程，表现为乡村人口向城市人口转化以及城市不断发展完善的过程。城市化有阶段性，集聚扩散性、不平衡性和与工业化的互动性等基本规律，表现为同步城市化、过度城市化和滞后城市化模式，呈现多元化、集群化、国际化、网络化、生态化和逆城市化趋势。根据这些基本理论和现实情况，作者提出了加快中国城市化，实现城市可持续发展的六项政策建议。     

WSSD 2002, Latin America and Brazil: Biodiversity and Indigenous People

Latin America comprehends notable variations in terms of natural environment, availability of natural resources, living standards, and demographic patterns. Latin America is a mosaic of cultures, post- and pre-Columbian. The rich variety of life forms discovered and described by chroniclers and traveling naturalists in the Neotropics contributed to the proposal, in mid-XVIIIth century, of a new system of classification and a scientific code of nomenclature for all organisms. Biodiversity was, for many centuries, a source of resources to be exploited in natura. In scientific circles, its inventory became the domain of taxonomists. But modern technology showed how important the miriad of life forms really are as sources of chemical molecules to be engineered as drugs and reassembled as novel manufactured products. We are on the brink of a new agricultural and medical revolution, thanks to the techniques of genetic engineering, which will lead eventually to the elimination of hunger and malnutrition.In this essay, the Brazilian environmental and social heterogeneity will serve as an example to illustrate some key points, which have influenced sustainability policies. The Amazon deforestation and indigenous knowledge (IK), subjects often associated with areas of high biodiversity, are usually the focus of environmental debates. The importance of IK in integrating development, reducing poverty and sustainability are considered together with the intellectual property rights of native populations.In the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Implementation Plan, a few paragraphs were dedicated to Latin America, because of the pre-existing Action Platform on the Road to Johannesburg 2002, approved in Rio de Janeiro in October 2001. This paper calls attention to the need to draw up specific environmental policies for a region which shows an extremely high cultural and biological diversity, associated with a high availability of forests and water, among other resources.     

Ethnosciences––A step towards the integration of scientific and indigenous forms of knowledge in the management of natural resources for the future

Integration of indigenous knowledge and ethnoscientific approaches into contemporary frameworks for conservation and sustainable management of natural resources will become increasingly important in policies on an international and national level, both in countries that are industrialised and those that have a developing status. We set the scene on how this can be done by exploring the key conditions and dimensions of a dialogue between ȁ8ontologiesȁ9 and the roles, which ethnosciences could play in this process. First, the roles of ethnosciences in the context of sustainable development were analysed, placing emphasis on the implications arising when western sciences aspire to relate to indigenous forms of␣knowledge. Secondly, the contributions of ethnosciences to such an ȁ8inter- ontological dialogueȁ9 were explored, based on an ethnoecological study of the encounter of sciences and indigenous knowledge in the Andes of Bolivia, and reviewed experiences from mangrove systems in Kenya, India and Sri Lanka, and from case-studies in other ecosystems world-wide, incl. Australia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nepal, Niger, Philippines, Senegal, South-Africa and Tanzania.     

Paradoxical ozone associations could be due to methyl nitrite from combustion of methyl ethers or esters in engine fuels

We review studies of the effects of low ambient ozone concentrations on morbidity that found a negative coefficient for ozone concentration. We call this a Paradoxical Ozone Association (POA). All studies were in regions with methyl ether in gasoline. All but one study carefully controlled for the effects of other criterion pollutants, so the phenomenon cannot be attributed to them. One was in southern California in mid-summer when ozone levels are highest. Because ozone is created by sunlight, the most plausible explanation for a POA would be an ambient pollutant that is rapidly destroyed by sunlight, such as methyl nitrite (MN). A previously published model of engine exhaust chemistry suggested methyl ether in the fuel will create MN in the exhaust. MN is known to be highly toxic, and closely related alkyl nitrites are known to induce respiratory sensitivity in humans. Support for the interpretation comes from many studies, including three linking asthma symptoms to methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and the observation that a POA has not been seen in regions without ether in gasoline. We also note that studies in southern California show a historical trend from more significant to less significant ozone-health associations. The timing of those changes is consistent with the known timing of the introduction of gasoline oxygenated with MTBE in that region.     

Household water in rural asia: a case study of the construction of a piped water system in Bangui,Ilocos Norte,Philippines

In early 1980 an extension agent was assigned to the rural municipality of Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines to work on development projects – in particular the improvement of the supply of safe water for drinking and sanitation. After many months of visiting spring sites and meeting with community leaders, a small part of the municipality was selected to build a gravity fed piped water system. Although the system took many months to plan, identify funding and construct, the 600 community members were ultimately rewarded with house to house connections that enabled them to achieve per capita water consumption levels above the minimum levels recommended by the World Health Organization. Of course, money was critical to ensure the project’s success, but many other factors played an equally critical role. For instance, without the active participation of the community and the unwavering support of the community leadership the project would not have survived the initial planning stage. Also, the extension agent played a critical role by acting as a conduit between funding agencies, the Bureau of Public Works and the community. The primary lesson to be learned from this experience is that the success of rural development projects is largely driven by the synergy between the community, technical support, financial support, and agents of change such as extension agents. If any of these ingredients had been lacking, the project result would likely have been far different.     

Distributions of personal VOC exposures: a population-based analysis

Information regarding the distribution of volatile organic compound (VOC) concentrations and exposures is scarce, and there have been few, if any, studies using population-based samples from which representative estimates can be derived. This study characterizes distributions of personal exposures to ten different VOCs in the U.S. measured in the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Personal VOC exposures were collected for 669 individuals over 2-3 days, and measurements were weighted to derive national-level statistics. Four common exposure sources were identified using factor analyses: gasoline vapor and vehicle exhaust, methyl tert-butyl ether (MBTE) as a gasoline additive, tap water disinfection products, and household cleaning products. Benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, xylenes chloroform, and tetrachloroethene were fit to log-normal distributions with reasonably good agreement to observations. 1,4-Dichlorobenzene and trichloroethene were fit to Pareto distributions, and MTBE to Weibull distribution, but agreement was poor. However, distributions that attempt to match all of the VOC exposure data can lead to incorrect conclusions regarding the level and frequency of the higher exposures. Maximum Gumbel distributions gave generally good fits to extrema, however, they could not fully represent the highest exposures of the NHANES measurements. The analysis suggests that complete models for the distribution of VOC exposures require an approach that combines standard and extreme value distributions, and that carefully identifies outliers. This is the first study to provide national-level and representative statistics regarding the VOC exposures, and its results have important implications for risk assessment and probabilistic analyses.     

Long-term increase in climatic dryness in the East-Mediterranean as evidenced for the island of Samos

The Eastern Mediterranean region is among the regions which were predicted to become drier under IPCC climate scenarios. Here, we document a gradual reduction of rainfall and tree growth and the loss of rural springs during the last decades of the twentieth century. Years with severe drought are associated with very low tree growth (dendrochronology) and dry falling of springs as evidenced by interviews with local stakeholders. The paper discusses the consequences of accelerating drought on natural vegetation and agriculture and points at the interaction with fire dynamics and economy, both likely to enhance the drought effect.     

How Do Groups Solve Local Commons Dilemmas? Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field

The use of experimental settings to observe human behaviour in a controlled environment of incentives, rules and institutions, has been widely used by the behavioural sciences for sometime now, particularly by psychology and economics. In most cases the subjects are college students recruited for one to two hour decision making exercises in which, depending on their choices, they earn cash averaging US$ 20. In such exercises players face a set of feasible actions, rules and incentives (payoffs) involving different forms of social exchange with other people, and that in most cases involve some kind of externalities with incomplete contracts, such as in the case of common-pool resources situations. Depending on the ecological and institutional settings, the resource users face a set of feasible levels of extraction, a set of rules regarding the control or monitoring of individual use, and sometimes ways of imposing material or non-material costs or rewards to those breaking or following the rules. We brought the experimental lab to the field and invited about two hundred users of natural resources in three Colombian rural villages to participate in such decision making exercises and through these and other research instruments we learned about the ways they solve - or fail to - tragedies of the commons with different social institutions. Further, bringing the lab to the field allowed us to explore some of the limitations of existing models about human behaviour and its consequences for designing policies for conserving ecosystems and improving social welfare.     

Comparative analysis of the effect of predator odor on morphological and physiological parameters of adult male Campbell hamsters (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Phodopus campbelli</Emphasis>) and dwarf hamsters (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Phodopus sungorus</Emphasis>)

The effect of long-term exposure to natural excretions of the European polecat on the morphological parameters and hormonal status of adult male Campbell hamsters (Phodopus campbelli) and dwarf hamsters (Ph. sungorus) was studied. Exposure to volatile components of natural excreta of a potential predator did not have any significant effect on hamsters. The combined influence of volatile and nonvolatile components of the polecat’s excretions caused physiological stress in Ph. campbelli, while in Ph. sungorus, on the contrary, an increase in thymus weight and the plasma testosterone level was recorded.     

Human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), as evidenced by data from a duplicate diet study, indoor air, house dust, and biomonitoring in Germany

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) are used as flame retardants in a wide variety of products. As part of the Integrated Exposure Assessment Survey (INES), this study aimed to characterize the exposure of an adult German population using duplicate diet samples, which were collected daily over seven consecutive days, and indoor air and house dust measurements. Our study population consisted of 27 female and 23 male healthy subjects, aged 14–60 years, all of whom resided in 34 homes in southern Bavaria. In these 34 residences the air was sampled using glass fiber filters and polyurethane foams and the dust was collected from used vacuum cleaner bags.The median (95th percentile) daily dietary intake of six Tetra- to HeptaBDE congeners was 1.2 ng/kg b.w. (3.3 ng/kg b.w.) or 67.8 ng/day (208 ng/day) (calculated from the 7-day median values of each study subject). Concentrations in indoor air and dust (cumulative Tri- to DecaBDE congener readings) ranged from 8.2 to 477 pg/m³ (median: 37.8 pg/m³) and 36.6 to 1580 ng/g (median: 386 ng/g), respectively. For some congeners, we identified a significant correlation between air and dust levels.The median (95th percentile) blood concentration of total Tetra- to HexaBDE congener readings was 5.6 (13.2) ng/g lipid. No significant sex differences were observed, but higher blood concentrations were found in younger participants. Using a simplified toxicokinetic model to predict the body burden from exposure doses led to results that were of the same order of magnitude as the measured blood concentrations.Based on these measurements and given our exposure assumptions, we estimated for the total tetra- to heptabrominated congener count an average (high) comprehensive total daily intake of 1.2 ng/kg b.w. (2.5 ng/kg b.w.). Overall, our results suggest that dietary exposure is the dominant intake pathway at least in our study population, responsible for 97% (average intake) and 95% (high intake) of the total intake of an adult population.